As a child in the late 1950s I was an avid listener to a BBC radio comedy series that broke the mould. It was the Goon Show and it would lay the groundwork for Python and many other absurdist comedies.
As a child in the late 1950s I was an avid listener to a BBC radio comedy series that broke the mould. It was the Goon Show and it would lay the groundwork for Python and many other absurdist comedies.
In this vibrant production, devised by acclaimed director Peter Sellars, the rich and transcendent score of Purcell’s final unfinished opera is reworked around a new text and the inclusion of a number of Purcell’s most ravishing religious anthems. This new retelling of The Indian Queen recounts the initial confrontation between Europeans and the Mayans of the New World through a personal account from the female perspective
